Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and Sound Processors
Made for iPhone hearing aids
Apple has worked with top manufacturers to create hearing aids and sound processors designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. These advanced hearing devices provide outstanding sound quality, offer many helpful features, and are as easy to set up and use as any other Bluetooth device. You can quickly access the features and settings of your paired hearing device by triple-clicking the Home button. Glance at the battery status or change the left and right volume, together or separately. And quickly apply your audiologist’s environmental presets as you go outdoors or enter noisy locations, like restaurants, without having to rely on additional remotes.
Made for iPhone hearing aids
Live Listen for Made for iPhone Hearing Aids
Made for iPhone hearing aids and sound processors can help you have better conversations in loud places. Just turn on the Live Listen feature and move your iPad toward the people you’re talking with.1 Live Listen uses the microphone to pick up what they’re saying more clearly.
Messages with iMessage
iMessage lets you start up a conversation without needing to say or hear a word. Send unlimited messages to anyone on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or Mac. Or send a group message to keep everyone in the loop. You can also share photos, videos, locations, links, or the occasional smiley.2
Updated Closed Captions
Closed Captions on iPad
The LEGO Batman Movie is available on iTunes
Watch movies, TV shows, and podcasts with closed captions. Just look for the CC icon to buy or rent captioned movies from the iTunes Store or find captioned podcasts in iTunes U. Download straight to your iPad to watch on the go. iOS also supports open captions and subtitles. You can even customize captions with different styles and fonts, including styles that are larger and outlined for better legibility. For those who are deaf-blind, iPad lets VoiceOver users access closed caption and subtitle tracks through their braille displays.
Mono Audio
When you’re using headphones, you may miss some audio if you’re hard of hearing or deaf in one ear. That’s because stereo recordings usually have distinct left- and right-channel audio tracks. iOS can help by playing both audio channels in both ears, and letting you adjust the balance for greater volume in either ear, so you won’t miss a single note of a concerto or word of an audiobook.
Closed Captions on iPad
The LEGO Batman Movie is available on iTunes
Resources
Support
Apple Accessibility Support
Learn more at Apple Accessibility Support
User Guides
iPad User Guide (Tagged HTML)
Learn more with the iPad User Guide
iPad User Guide (iBooks)
Open the iPad User Guide in the iBooks Store
Enable accessibility features on iPad.
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- From the Home screen, go to iOS settings icon and select General.
- Select Accessibility.
- Select and turn on the features you want to use.